The Winter Ball, originally scheduled for Dec. 7, 2024, was canceled due to a lack of ticket sales, Associate Student Body (ASB) President Atharv Vyas said. All students who bought a ticket will receive a full refund, he said.
Before the winter ball was canceled, ASB had sold roughly 115-120 tickets, Vyas said. ASB ultimately determined there to be four main reasons why enough tickets hadn’t been sold, Vyas added.
“It could have been the timing of the event, the ticket prices, poor publicity on our part, and the fourth was not publicizing in a way where we called it ‘winter ball,’” Vyas said. “Just because we had to get approved by admin, we called it ‘Jack Emery Benefit Ball,’ and people thought it would be more of a middle school benefit dance rather than something similar to Hoco (Homecoming).”…